[plug] Netgear FA312 drivers

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Thu Dec 6 09:45:55 WST 2001


On Thursday 06 December 2001 08:29 am, Victoria wrote:
> I'm looking for a wake WOL card to use with linux has any one
> any experience with the Netgear FA312.

> Can WOl be enabled only via DOS driver or are there linux utils that
> work?

Linux does WOL (actually, the card does WOL, Linux only sets it up to do so), 
for an example, see here: http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html

If you want a spiffy card, the later Intel ones are pretty reliable and have 
all manner of bonus features like a variety of network boot options.

Cheers; Leon



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